Since Friday morning the Sinnoh region appreciation event is live. This is an event to celebrate the Pokémon from the Sinnoh region, which is generation 4. We can now find a lot of the Sinnoh Pokémon spawning more in the wild, which thus makes a lot of Turtwig, Chimchar and Piplup appear as well! More Sinnoh Pokémon can also be found in Raids now as well as Pokémon from earlier generations that can evolve with a Sinnoh Stone into their evolution added in generation 4, such as Electabuzz and Magmar.
As with many events there are also a few Field Research tasks unique to the event that can be received until the event ends on Monday, February 10 at 10 pm local time. Any tasks you still have from the event can of course be completed afterwards. Other than those event specific Field Research Tasks it is also possible to receive the normal tasks. For the event there are 5 different tasks we can get, which are the following:
- Win a Raid : Hippopotas encounter
- Catch 5 Kricketot : Combee encounter
- Evolve a Pokémon using a Sinnoh Stone : Cranidos encounter
- Catch 5 Turtwig, Chimchar or Piplup : 1000 Stardust
- Hatch 5 Eggs : Sinnoh Stone
When it comes to Lures, the special type Lures were first introduced during the release of generation 4 so they get some love as well. As these are used to evolve some Pokémon into their generation 4 evolutions. All Magnetic, Glacial and Mossy Lure Modules that are activated during the event will last for 1 hour instead of the usual 30 minutes.
If you open a gift during the event you can receive up to two 7 km eggs per gift as long as you have space for eggs. This is not guaranteed as you can still receive just 1 egg even if you have space for 2 or more, or even receive no egg at all. If you can, always try to have 2 egg spots though when opening a gift as the chance to receive 2 eggs from one gift is pretty high from my own experience!
These 7 km Eggs only contain Sinnoh region Pokémon for any 7 km egg that you receive within the event period. So no Alolan Pokémon in those eggs right now, and only baby Pokémon introduced in generation 4. The following Pokémon can hatch from 7 km Eggs received during the event:
- Shinx
- Budew
- Combee
- Buizel
- Cherubi
- Bronzor
- Bonsly
- Gible
- Riolu
- Hippopotas
- Mantyke
With the start of this event Shiny Riolu and Shiny Hippopotas have been added in the game. So it's now possible to also get Shiny Lucario by evolving a Shiny Riolu and to get a Shiny Hippowodn by evolving a Shiny Hippopotas. I'm really hoping to hatch a Shiny Riolu from an egg!
So far with all the eggs I have hatched up until now I haven't gotten hatched any Shiny, about half of the Pokémon that can hatch from them right now has potential to be Shiny. I have managed to hatch at least one of almost all Pokémon in the list, except for Riolu and Gible. These first two days of the event, all the eggs I have hatched so far I didn't see a single Riolu or Gible yet unfortunately. I still have a bunch of eggs in incubators right now that I got from gifts today, which I will be hatching tomorrow so I can get more eggs from gifts.
Have you hatched anything good so far from the 7 km Eggs during this Sinnoh Celebration ?